I have a Husky knee mill (clone of Grizzly 8X30) and only one of the cheezy plastic handwheels is not broken. I bought a 6" chrome plated cast iron handwheel and it came with a 1/4" hole in the center of the hub. I have bored the hub out to 1.305 and the old steel hub that I pulled out of the OEM plastic HW is 1.312 OD and it is a knurled OD. I plan on pressing the old hub into the new HW and I think with the hub being knurled the .007 press fit will be OK. However, I was thinking of also putting some Loctite or maybe some other type of adhesive on the knurled surface before assembly.
Just curious if others have done this repair and if so, did you use anything besides just a press fit. Attached pics show the HW and the OEM hub.
Just curious if others have done this repair and if so, did you use anything besides just a press fit. Attached pics show the HW and the OEM hub.